The Feinstein School of Education and Human Development
Presents:
Dr. Jonathan Kozol Joy and Justice:
An Invitation to the Young to Serve the Children of the Poor
In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Jonathan Kozol moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston and became a fourth grade teacher in the Boston Public Schools. He has devoted the subsequent four decades to issues of education and social justice in America.
When he is not with teachers in their classrooms, or at universities and colleges speaking to our future teachers, Jonathan is likely to be found in Washington DC. He has spent much of the past year attempting to convince his friends within the Senate leadership, as well as advisers to our newly elected President to radically revise the punitive aspects of No Child Left Behind.
He has been called by the Chicago Sun-Times "today's most eloquent spokesman for America's disenfranchised." But he believes that teachers and their students speak most eloquently for themselves; and in his newest book Letters to a Young Teacher, so full of the vitality of youth, we hear their testimony.
Thursday October 22, 2009
4:00 pm in Roberts Hall Auditorium
Rhode Island College
This event is free and open to the public
Accommodations are available with 48 hour prior notification to
401-456-8822 or fsehd@ric.edu
The Feinstein School of Education and Human Development
Presents:
Dr. Jonathan Kozol
Joy and Justice:
An Invitation to the Young to Serve the Children of the Poor
In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Jonathan Kozol moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston and became a fourth grade teacher in the Boston Public Schools. He has devoted the subsequent four decades to issues of education and social justice in America.
When he is not with teachers in their classrooms, or at universities and colleges speaking to our future teachers, Jonathan is likely to be found in Washington DC. He has spent much of the past year attempting to convince his friends within the Senate leadership, as well as advisers to our newly elected President to radically revise the punitive aspects of No Child Left Behind.
He has been called by the Chicago Sun-Times "today's most eloquent spokesman for America's disenfranchised." But he believes that teachers and their students speak most eloquently for themselves; and in his newest book Letters to a Young Teacher, so full of the vitality of youth, we hear their testimony.
Thursday October 22, 2009
4:00 pm in Roberts Hall Auditorium
Rhode Island College
This event is free and open to the public
Accommodations are available with 48 hour prior notification to
401-456-8822 or fsehd@ric.edu